Nomination of Maria Lucia Johnson To Be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board

The President today announced his intention to nominate Maria Lucia Johnson to be a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board for the 7 year term expiring March 1, 1990. She would succeed Ersa H. Poston.

Ms. Johnson is serving as a consultant to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. Previously she was a commercial loan officer for the Security National Bank in Anchorage, Alaska (1982); commercial real estate loan officer for the National Bank of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, in 1981-1982; associate attorney in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Lambert, Griffin & McGovern in 1979-1981; and at the District of Columbia Department of Housing in 1978-1979.

She graduated from Howard University (B.S, 1969) and Georgetown University (J.D., 1975). She was born January 27, 1947, in Livorno, Italy. She resides in Washington, D.C.